{"id":1337,"date":"2004-03-02T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T15:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1337.html"},"modified":"2004-03-02T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T15:37:55","slug":"bush-told-musgrave-he-would-back-fma-three-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-told-musgrave-he-would-back-fma-three-months-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush told Musgrave he would back FMA three months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Bush endorsed the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment last week, the White House insisted that the president arrived at his decision after a lengthy and deliberative process. Scott McClellan said Bush “consult[ed] with constitutional scholars, theologians, religious leaders and others.” The decision was also prompted, Bush argued, by “local authorities” who were trying to “change the most fundamental institution of civilization.”<\/p>\n

Apparently, like too many of the White House’s claims, none of this is true. As the Progress Report noted<\/a> yesterday, the president told the amendment’s leading House sponsor in November<\/a> that he would back the FMA, immediately after the Massachusetts court ruled and well before officials in San Francisco and New Mexico started issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.<\/p>\n

As the Rocky Mountain News reported<\/a> over the weekend, a top aide to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) said Bush assured the conservative lawmaker that he would back her proposed amendment three months before his official endorsement last week.<\/p>\n

Guy Short, Musgrave’s chief of staff, said Musgrave discussed her Federal Marriage Amendment with the president during a Nov. 24 trip aboard Air Force One to Fort Carson, where Bush visited troops and met with survivors of military personnel killed in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“She flew back to Colorado with him, and he indicated he would be supportive of the amendment and her language,” Short said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Bush endorsed the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment last week, the White House insisted that the president arrived at his decision after a lengthy and deliberative process. Scott McClellan said Bush “consult[ed] with constitutional scholars, theologians, religious leaders and others.” The decision was also prompted, Bush argued, by “local authorities” who were trying to “change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}